[Highlight] The audio on the Kings broadcast malfunctions and picks up a “startling” message from a technician
RIP Katie, you’ll be missed.
I’ve gotten the general impression that she might not be.
Rumors of her demise have been greatly … ?
I would definitely watch more kings games if it happened
At least not by the technician
she seriously is one of the worst announcers i’ve ever heard. shit is sometimes better on mute and i’m not even kidding.
I feel like this sub usually is too harsh on announcers but yeah she isn’t great
They killed poor Katie.
they had to!
It sound like they didn’t have a choice and had to kill her based on the guys sentence phrasing.
He didnt sound too broken up about it though.
Is that a requirement in your mind?
You bastards!
Not really.
Who’s her 🥲
Kayte Christensen
The reactions from our fan base were interesting to say the least lol
You either like her or have met her. The lore around Kayte is just something else lmao
The gossip from her neighbor was pure toxic fanbase shit but I still get a chuckle every time I think about her smoking cigarettes
There was also that stuff about her having “poor orgy etiquette” 😭
man someone drop me a thread or context please, I am so confused lmao
Just rumor mill stuff from Kings fans. I tried posting a link to a thread but they wouldn’t let me. Just look up the game thread in our subreddit for this December 2020 game: [Game Thread, 12⁄27] The Undefeated Sacramento Kings (2-0) look to get the home sweep of The Phoenix Suns (1-1).
This should be the link: https://np.reddit.com/r/kings/comments/klgbk7/game_thread_1227_the_undefeated_sacramento_kings/gh95knn/
Fwiw that bit about her shooting the opossum was confirmed a couple years after that thread
Sac Bee article from March 2023:
[Joseph Hunter, Kayte’s husband] was given a 10-day suspension for using “personal friendships” to try to get the police to leave when they responded to a report that Hunter’s wife [Kayte] shot an opossum in the backyard during a 2019 party at their West Sacramento home.
So whoever that redditor was might have actually had some real info lol
Wow, someone in the thread casted doubt saying that is illegal and would surely make the news if true. And sure enough it made the news.
The early scouting reports on Haliburton are also fun to read
Aight what the fuck
Her husband made the final tribal on Survivor last year! This shit is crazy and getting juicier
JOE FUCKING HARRIS? WHO’S GONNA BE ON SURVIVOR 50??? 😭what is this plot twist dropped on me
Hunter not Harris, but yes
lmao once you get past three or four tidbits it starts to sound more believable because those are so weirdly specific
Either do np or www, using both flags it as a security hazard.
People forget her husband was on Survivor and will be on season 50
That.. is honestly amazing to read
How does one have poor orgy etiquette?
She would NOT stop farting
I feel like that’s bad etiquette in any situation. You gotta stop at some point lmao
And another question. How many farts before it’s too many
depends on if you can cough at the same time to hide the sound
Does not give reacharounds
Didn’t get the invite
Do you want an honest answer?
Nah I want you to write me a fanfiction actually
Can’t tell if sarcasm…..
Anyway, honest answer, basically it’s like any other social activity, respect other people’s boundaries, except to include the understanding that you’re all there to share intimacy with others. No means no, and you can still get consent.
Also, hygiene. Unless agreed upon beforehand, be showered, clean, free of strong fragrances, free of foul odour, fresh breathe, no cigarette odour, no drugs (unless agreed upon), no bringing unexpected guests unless given the OK, etc.
This guy orgies
And everyone brings paperwork showing they were recently tested and are STD free?
Favoritism?
i have no idea whether that user was/is indeed kayte’s neighbor, but their gossip from the kings’ subreddit lives in my head as cannon: the incessant cigarette smoking, constantly watching tv on full-volume outside, very loud conversations (if not arguments) between those who were inside the house and those outside etc. lol
Has kayte been a 76 year old Italian woman from Staten Island this whole time??
Lol what. I need the lowdown
What in the fuck her husband is a guy from Survivor??? this is crazy to me as a fan of both the NBA and Survivor
What do people say about meeting her?
Sac rumors have buzzed for years saying she’s actually lowkey hella messy with her personal life 😅. She did go from Kayte christenson to Kayte hunter to Kayte Hunter-Christenson, BACK to Kayte Christensen, and now it’s confirmed she’s back with her manz.
Also her mans was a finalist on survivor last season or the season before that. Really weird small world stuff lmao
Was crazy because I was looking her up and his picture kept popping up and I was like “why tf is Joe from Survivor coming up???”
Til Joe and Kayte are together?
She shot a possum for no good reason.
Edit: then her husband tried to use his influence with the local PD to cover it up.
With a house behind that she was also inadvertently aiming at
Now I’m pissed
for real. fuck her for that. that’s fucking psycho.
It’s worse cuz they’re harmless and they are natural pest control
Her sister In law has a law named after her, following her death, and suspicion of murder
“Kill her” is referencing cutting her mic.
Source: I work in sports television and this is common terminology. It hitting air is insane though
No, they actually took her out back of the stadium and executed her. Had a big funeral and everything
Turned into Beam particles
Pretty sure none of that is real.
YOU’RE NOT REAL MAN
Oh we had no idea!
Did people not get this? I thought this was obvious, but choosing to take the words at face value is what made the clip funny.
You have to be deep in the industry for decades to pick up this level of knowledge
KANGZ BROADCAST PRODUCTIONZ
Explaining the joke
Thanks for the clarification!
Everybody knew this…. Thanks for killing the joke…. But Celtics fan so figures….
I’ve genuinely never heard a director’s actual mic being picked up on a broadcast before by accident, this is insane lmao
I assume the audio was meant for the play by play guys so they know not to keep waiting on her segment.
Anyways let’s ignore context RIP Katie I don’t know what you did but you will be missed.
Looked her up and then realized she’s married to a Survivor finalist lol wtf
OJ - Whatchu talking about? Nobody. Nothing and nobody.
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Time and place man, time and place
Google Image Search Go! She seems like an insufferable pretty white lady! Next time google things! Insufferable reddit guy out!
Lol I get the context but that’s just such horrible timing
whats the context lol im so confused
They probably had to quickly shut off her feed/ mic
“Kill their mic” is a common TV/radio term for turning off their audio
Most jargony industry ever I stg
When I was in film school one day we literally had a class about jargon so you don’t look like an idiot the first day on set. One thing my professor drilled into our brains is that they’re not clothespins, they’re “C-47s”
First day on set out of school I ask for a C-47 and everyone laughs at the dumb thing I called a clothespin. I’m pretty sure he set us up lol.
We call them bullets now. Sounds like your professor was on set a few times in 1970 lol.
You call them C-47s on the itemized bill, that way some producer isn’t throwing a hissy fit over you needing clothespins, because “why would you need those on set?”
This sounds like the military. Tech school is a little behind day to day operations.
Restaurants with 86, backa house, front of house, all that lol
military and anythin to do with flying (atc, pilots) has to be worse, right?
Did photo and video editing once upon a time. The phrase “Crush the blacks” would always raise an eyebrow or two from anyone who wasn’t familiar with photo or video editing.
Just means turn off her mic/device
For the full context: broadcast audio was all messed up at the start of that game, with the in-arena mics all being super quiet and Kayte (“her” in question) sounding like she was talking into a melted AC fan.
So it sounds like they “had to kill her (mic)” in order to fix it
F
l get it.
We’ve all been there.
You had to do what you had to do.
She saw things she shouldn’t have.
Never mess with a technician’s sutff.
They didn’t think she could see it from her vantage point.
RIP Katie.
Ehh
Damn man, what did Katie do?
I couldn’t see from my angle
it was unspeakable
To shreds, you say?
Like I was saying earlier
real fans know
I would have to take a second look.
the rhetorical nature of this question turns to pure comedy after having just read all the wild shit she has done. that was a ride.
It was kind of like when she was playing…
The Jokic family sends their regards
Fuck ICE
Woof…too on point
F’in bitch
Understandable, thank you Mr technician
lol this wasn’t startling. I was watching this game and Both their mics sounded like they were swimming under water. They fixed the dudes mic first. Then Kaytes mic was off air for like 2 minutes right after this. Then she was back on.
It’s startling to pick up one sentence from a conversation and the sentence is “WE HAD TO KILL HER”
But it didn’t only pick up one sentence. It starts with Kyle saying “I can’t hear Kayte at all” and the response is “We had to kill her.”
Well that would actually explain it
In a movie this leads to the innocent listener fighting off bad guys for 80 minutes
HAD TO.
No other option.
Lmao damn, I wasn’t expecting that
-ICE
Finally someone did what needed to be done.
Damn. A recorded murder confession
more like a public service
(I know nothing)
This is the type of audio those creepy YouTube videos be posting in their top ten most creepiest, and all the videos are taken completely out of contest
“This is my confession, admissable in court, I killed Darnell Simmons for sport!”
RIP Katie
“Bomb has been planted”
Terrorist win!
nice knowing her
RIP Katie thoughts and prayers
The part where he said Katie’s talents aren’t age appropriate was crazy lmfao 😂😂
Please do this all game. She is the worse announcer in sports history lol
This funny af lmao
The way he says it, definitely not sorry
tango down
Oh my God they killed Katye, You bastards!
That’s not a technician. That’s the producer talk in on the private line
As a broadcast engineer by day… how in the fuck did they manage to do this??
One of our post game commentators had audio issues a few days ago and mentioned in a later podcast that the crew had recently gotten a new truck. Sounds like they’re still working out some kinks and getting some wires uncrossed.
Is she supposed to be invincible or something?
Blood just John Cena her
Mans is talking through the Phasmophobia spirit box
RIP Katie 🙏
I don’t know guys…. Seems a bit excessive
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Common thing to say in audio - to “kill” the mic is to turn it off.
Wait…. Really? Are you saying that Kayte’s still alive? Man, those audio engineers really should choose their words more carefullyer…. /s
Straight to the shadow realm
Some comment said it was terminology for broadcasting but why did the guy say it all aggressively
Fast pace environment doing a live broadcast. Aggression isn’t meant to be taken personally. It’s to express urgency. In this instance, urgently trying to convey someone’s mic had to be turned off in order to figure out the solution
Man you really can’t call him Westbrick
RIP Kayte. One of the better color commentators in the league. She will be missed
I got him. I GOT COSTELLO HERE.
RIP
Lmao this was way too funny.
u/justsomeaudioguy
What’s happening here? Besides a confession to a crime.
Worst fear and nightmare - you’re hearing the talkback between the booth and producer. That’s a GIANT no no and I have nightmares about it ever happening to me. Guys have had their careers ended because of those types of mistakes
I’d pay extra for that
Seriously… this is nightmare fuel for any audio operator
Eek! may you never have to experience this in your career!
They can’t use that in court right?
Katie’s been neutralized
jj
Bruh lmao
She knew too much.
I think she’s on meds.
Used to be a great sideline reporter and has been dull and confused since the promotion
This reminds me that we had one of our clerks retire at work last week. She was the absolute nicest old lady ever. The company set her autoreply message on her email to “<clerk> is no longer with us” …excuse me, that means an entirely different thing!
Ooof. Headset chatter should never make it to air.
Hahaha I heard this and forgot to look into if someone posted it. Had to rewind it when i watched it live to make sure I wasn’t tripping
FINALLY
It’s funny because she talks too much on the broadcasts and many Kings fans wish she was gone.
NO OTHER CHOICE
crying
lmfaoo wtf
Free Grant Napear!
I cannot understand what’s being said. I’ve listened to it multiple times. What am I missing?
“We had to kill her”
Oh thanks. I was focusing so hard on the in-arena announcer that I totally missed that. Straining to hear him say who scored…
They lost Allison or whatever he name was and he said he had to kill her which means her mic.
Lol Allison actually kinda works
She must have been sat in her SUV
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I think “had to”
Diddy